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Findings from Tohoku University Provide New Insights into Gerontology (Dietary Patterns and Incident Dementia in Elderly Japanese: The Ohsaki Cohort…

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Findings from Tohoku University Provide New Insights into Gerontology (Dietary Patterns and Incident Dementia in Elderly Japanese: The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at China Weekly News -- Current study results on Aging Research have been published. According to news reporting out of Miyagi, Japan, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Although it has been speculated that the Japanese dietary pattern has a preventive effect against incident dementia, no reported study has yet investigated this issue. The present prospective cohort study investigated the association between dietary patterns and incident dementia in elderly Japanese subjects."

Financial support for this research came from Honjo International Scholarship Foundation.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Tohoku University, "We analyzed follow-up data covering a 5.7-year period for 14,402 older adults (a parts per thousand yen65 years) participating in a community-based, prospective cohort study. Three dietary patterns (Japanese pattern, animal food pattern, and high-dairy pattern) were derived using principal component analysis of the consumption of 39 food and beverage items assessed using a food frequency questionnaire. Data on incident dementia were retrieved from the public Long-term Care Insurance database. With 71,043 person-years of follow-up, incidence of dementia was 9.0%. The score for the Japanese dietary pattern was associated with a lower risk of incident dementia (hazard ratio of the highest quartile vs the lowest, 0.80; 95% confidence interval: 0.66-0.97; p-trend = .016). The animal food pattern and the high-dairy pattern showed no significant association with incident dementia."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "In this population of elderly Japanese individuals, the Japanese dietary pattern was associated with a decreased risk of incident dementia."